NIKKE, when the stars bloom

"You think I'll beat him?"

"No, I'm just asking, nothing else." The man, who was not used to wearing formal suits, put the tablet on a chair and continued:

"If it were me, I would definitely decide whether to beat him up based on the content of his speech."

The unconventional answer caused the atmosphere in the dressing room to suddenly become silent.

In the huge room, after getting the answer, Volum stared at Phoenix's emerald green eyes. After a while, the corners of her mouth suddenly rose, and at the same time, the sunglasses spinning in her right hand suddenly stopped, and then pointed in the direction of someone.

"You're right up my alley, agent."

"You too."

Amid Anik's mumbling, Phoenix pretended not to hear anything and quickly got into work mode.

"Then tomorrow afternoon at three o'clock, the 'Ark Talent Interview Column' plans to conduct a thirty-minute impromptu interview with you on the theme of creative inspiration.

I asked the staff to ask, the host this time should be Fesley, she once used a fake account to express her disgust towards you on the Internet, do you want to participate? "

"OK, I like this kind of live show where there's no time to cut off the segments." After listening to it, Wallum hummed a tune with disdain, "I want to see if she has the guts to say she hates me in front of me."

After saying those harsh words, the rap queen lifted her sexy and tight thighs, and asked nonchalantly amid the sizzling sound of her black stockings being torn:

"Agent, what did you do before?"

"I?"

"Until two hours and thirty-seven minutes ago, I was a commander."

"what?"

Chapter 28 The Commander Escapes

No one could have guessed that Wallen and his new agent would chat for three hours in the dressing room.

And both of them were having a very happy chat.

It was precisely because Wolum was so happy that the staff present also laughed along.

Only when they are in a good mood will their work qualification standards be lowered to the normal level in the industry, and they will not be tortured by the seemingly random but actually perverted demands of their leaders.

However, just as everyone was happily preparing to get off work...

There was only one person with a gloomy face and pouting lips, sitting on a high chair in the hall, swinging his legs sullenly.

Yuni is not happy! Very unhappy!!! Very unhappy!!!

The commander clearly told Yuni to "wait a moment", but she ended up waiting for more than three hours. Was he deliberately trying to intimidate Yuni?

Just when the girl decided to knock on the dressing room door to see if the commander was doing anything inappropriate for children, Volom's slightly magnetic voice came from the corridor.

"Are you Yuni?"

"Ok?"

Turning her head following the sound of footsteps, Yuni's sight was immediately drawn to the surging chest of the woman opposite her.

No wonder the commander chatted with the other party for so long, it turns out that this female singer has an even hotter figure than Mihaela.

"I'm Yuni, where's the commander?" the girl holding the whip asked innocently.

"commander?"

Volom raised his eyebrows and answered naturally, "You mean my agent? It's already six o'clock, he must be off work."

"get off work?"

Yuni blinked in confusion. After gradually realizing that the wicked commander might have run away without her knowledge, the little girl who had been waiting for more than three hours suddenly felt aggrieved and her eyes turned red.

"Commander, do you hate Yuni?"

“Hold, Hold…”

Seeing that Yuni looked like she was about to cry at any time, Wolumm, who didn't buy it at all, didn't panic. Instead, he waved his index finger in annoyance.

"It's no use pretending to be pitiful with me. I'm the best hip-hop singer in the Ark. It's bad enough to be followed by paparazzi every time I go out.

Not to mention that my agent has to be monitored by you 24 hours a day. If he doesn't hate you, does he hate me who pays him a salary?"

"Surveillance?"

After being accused by Wolumm, Yuni keenly grasped the key information in his words and quickly shook her head to deny it.

"I'm not here to monitor the commander. Shuen sent me to protect the commander."

"what?"

Seeing the innocent way the little girl explained herself, Wolum's expression, which had originally been a bit bad, gradually turned into one of weirdness and distress.

She really didn't know how to deal with such an immature child, so she had to tell the truth:

"Do you think a commander needs to be protected in the Ark? Although I don't know what the commander's position is within your organization, I am very clear about the commander's position in the Ark's laws.

Not to mention murder or kidnapping, even stealing from a commander would be severely punished according to the criminal law, and would be recorded in the personal file afterwards.

Besides, although your boss is the CEO of Missilis, don't forget that my boss is also the CEO of Tetra. If my agent really has an enemy, it is my boss who will come forward to protect him. Why should Missilis get involved, right? "

"……Um."

After thinking for a moment, Yuni finally stopped the tears that were about to flow.

She is not stupid, it's just that everyone in Missilis treats her like a child and never talks about overly realistic things.

Now after listening to Wollom's analysis, Yuni quickly understood the unspoken rule - surveillance cannot be called surveillance, it should be called protection.

No wonder the commander could guess that the Pure Land would send someone to "protect" him before he had time to say anything when they met in the car.

"Thank you. Yuni doesn't understand these things. No one wants to tell Yuni, even Mihala doesn't want to tell Yuni. You are the first person to tell Yuni these things.

Thank you. "

"…huh, nothing."

Because of the girl's straightforward thanks, Volum felt a little embarrassed and shy. Fortunately, her skin was a vibrant wheat color, so even if she blushed a little, it was difficult for others to notice.

“These are the ways of thinking my agent just taught me in the dressing room.”

"Commander? Why did he teach you this?" Yuni asked puzzledly, "Aren't you a singer?"

In response to this question, Volom simply sat down on the high chair next to Yuni and explained enthusiastically:

"Because I have an interview tomorrow, my agent told me that if I want to confront someone without being led by the other person, I have to think about the intention behind every word of the other person.

But this is quite difficult. The commander only gave me some examples and I am not very proficient in applying them.

If it weren't for the fact that that guy named Fesley was very eloquent and clearly wanted to target me, I wouldn't bother to make an interview so complicated. "

"Then...then can you teach Yuni?" Yuni stared at Volom expectantly, "I also want to become smart."

"It's not a problem. I have nothing to do tonight anyway...hiss! Why are you pinching me?!"

"Did it hurt?"

"How can pinching someone not hurt?"

"whee."

……

……

Taking advantage of the false night while it was still early and before Yuni, who was responsible for protecting him, caught up with him, Phoenix managed to escape. Using the consciousness map and Anik's route planning, he avoided dozens of surveillance cameras and came to a tavern called "No.5".

The pub is inconspicuous and in fact there is nothing special about it, but in someone's eyes, No.5 is unique.

The reason is simple. The pub owner is a blind man who is reluctant to spend money on photosensitive prosthetic eyes.

That's it.

"Old Roba, long time no see."

Pushing open the iron door painted with antique wood, Phoenix walked to the bar with proficiency and said cheerfully:

"Ice milk."

"Hey, kid, you're already a commander, and you still come to the bar to drink milk."

Old Roba, who was standing at the counter, had lifeless and cloudy eyes, but his palms seemed to have pupils. He reached into the cabinet and put a box of ice milk on the bar.

"It's a pleasure to have the commander visit our bar. This milk is on my behalf, old Roba."

"Then I won't be polite." Phoenix was also straightforward. He picked up the box of milk and drank it all in one breath.

He was indeed very thirsty, and although he had drunk some water in Wollum's studio, the physical thirst kept coming back to him.

Hey.

Putting the paper box on the table, Phoenix chuckled again, "Old Rob, are there any girls looking for Aaron recently?"

"Hey, kid, what's wrong? Are you trying to steal someone's girl?"

"Hey! I don't have that hobby. I'm just asking out of curiosity. I've noticed that Aaron seems absent-minded lately." Someone lied without thinking.

"Will that brat who only wants to be a hero ever come to his senses?"

Old Roba seemed to have heard the joke of the year and couldn't help laughing out loud a few times.

"Yes, there was. But the girl was very mysterious. When she went to look for Aaron, he wasn't there. So she left me a message and asked me to pass it on to Aaron."

"Oh? Is it something strange? Aaron has been saying some inexplicable things these past two days. Tell me about it and I'll pass it on to him for you."

"Hey~ You are still so shrewd and you guessed it right. The girl did leave me a strange message, something like 'empty mountains after the rain', I don't understand what it means at all."

"After the rain in the empty mountain?"

Phoenix murmured, his fingernails scratching the milk carton subconsciously, and even his pair of tourmaline eyes gradually became deeper because of the angle of his head lowering.

"I really don't understand what you mean. I'll ask Aaron some other day."

Chapter 29 Post-traumatic stress disorder

Empty mountain after the rain.

This was one of the secret codes between Phoenix and Anis, implying that she had infiltrated a violent organization in the Outer Edge of the Ark.

There are also phrases such as "the moon shines brightly before my bed" for safety, "the sun sets behind the mountain" for returning to the surface, and "spring sleep lasts till dawn" for diving into the ark...

These five-character quatrains, under Phoenix's planning, each have a simple and fixed meaning.

It seems that Anis has adapted to life in the Outer Edge of the Ark, the place where the Ark government exiles serious criminals and also dumps garbage.

I heard that many gray industrial chains have emerged in recent years.

"Old Roba, come to think of it, are you really not going to get your eyes treated? I met two medical Nikkis during this mission. Just nod your head and trust me, the price and quality of the surgery are absolutely guaranteed."

After getting the news, Phoenix had nothing to do for the rest of the time, so he simply stayed in Bar No. 5, enjoying milk and some cheap desserts, wasting his rare leisure time.

It was an awkward meal time, and the No. 5 bar would never provide staple food to the drinkers under the insistence of the stubborn owner. Therefore, naturally no customers would come to patronize during the period of six or seven o'clock.

When old Robba heard that Phoenix was going to introduce a doctor to him, he grinned nonchalantly.

"I've made it to this age, an old man with half a foot in the ground. How can I compare to you young people? I know best whether my body can withstand the food. Besides, Windsor is going to college soon, so I have to save some money for accident insurance."

"It's up to you. If Windsor needs to see a doctor, remember to find me, if I'm not dead."

"I've told you so many times not to say these bad words every day. You're really rude to me."

"Tsk, you're not much better than me."

"..."

"..."

The two friends, one old and one young, were silent for a few seconds, and then chuckled in tacit understanding.

However, at this moment, another wave of people rushed in from outside the door, making so much noise that it was hard not to attract Phoenix to turn around and look.

What catches the eye are colorful floral shirts, sunglasses of different styles, various necklaces and chains with skull patterns, and riveted belts that seem to be uniformly equipped.